Today we are seeing more and more people asking if Australia should become a republic. People are wondering if our head of state needs to be monarch. A republic country means that the head of state is a president. My point of view is Australia shouldn’t become a republic. In this essay I will discuss what our relationship with Britain will be affected if we do become a republic, the changes of becoming a republic and is anything really good about a republic.
It makes us focus on the Australian Flag Debate. The Australian Flag Debate, a periodic question, is a discussion about whether the Australian should change their national flag or not. Especially, the new flag should remove the Union Jack from the canton and to introduce a completely new design which is without the Southern Cross. (Wikipedia 2014) And it has been an ongoing debate since early 1990s. From the history of Australia, we can know that it has many connections with Britain.
This describes that the legislative branch does not have power over any other branch of government; there is checks and balances always occurring throughtout the government.”Within Cogress, there is a further check on legislative power: for legislation to passed, a majority in each chamber of Congress is required” (Patterson 51). Patterson exemplifies the point of how no one soley has power of another person. Our Founding Fathers wanted equality and freedom of an opinion which is what the United States of America is attempting to do everyday. “ The major function of Congress is to enact legislation”(Patterson 410). The head
Australia, it is time for a new flag. We, as the people of Australia, need to change the flag of this beautiful nation, as it only represents the doctrines and aspects set by the British. Not only does the flag show that we are still apart of the British, but marginalises the many people of this land. Australia now being a fully self-governed country is blooming with multiculturalism and individualism, which is not shown on the flag. Why do we need a new flag?
However after Roosevelt (33-45) the 22nd amendment (1951) was brought in which limited a President to two terms. Therefore once a President has served two terms he is permitted to leave office. Examples of these Presidents which have successfully served two terms are Ronald Reagan (81-89) and more recently George Bush Jnr (01-09). If a President dies whilst in office then this is obviously a circumstance in which he must leave office. Examples of these include Roosevelt who died in 1945 and J.F.
Declaration of the Rights of Man Vs. Declaration of the Rights of Woman In 1789 the delegates from the third estate took the tennis court oath, which stated that the group wouldn’t break up until it had succeeded in creating a new national constitution. They called themselves the National Assembly and after two months and six days of debate and voting they issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. This declaration contains seventeen articles, which makes the justification for authority no longer the King’s will but the protection of the natural rights of man. However, this document does not acknowledge any rights of women whatsoever.
The principle was adopted by the Founding Fathers due to their fear of totalitarianism. Montesquieu argued for separation of powers in his book L’Esprit de Lois, where he stated that separation of powers will avoid tyranny ‘When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person…there can be no liberty.’ On the contrary to the US, the UK’s powers are fused; the Prime Minister is both the executive and part of the legislature. In the US system there is also a separation of personnel, this means that no person can be a member of more than one branch at the same time. When Senator Al Gore was elected vice-president in 1992, he had to resign from the Senate. Similarly, in 2008, Barack Obama too had to resign from the Senate.
This was the Liberal party’s third home rule bill since 1886. It was rejected by the House of Lords on two occasions, but due to the Parliament Act of 1911 which made it so the House of Lords could only reject a law for a maximum of two years. The home rule bill was finally sent to the Royal assent on the 18th of September 1914. The Liberal’s third home rule bill was made possible due to the constitutional crisis of 1909. This was when the House of Lords rejected David Lloyd George’s finance bill.
The novel is set over a time period of about two decades; in order to comprehend it accurately, readers must understand the politics of Afghanistan over this time period. In 1953, General Mohammad Daud became the prime minister of the state, but was forced to resign after a decade. Afghanistan was then turned into a constitutional monarchy, and Daud rose to power again in 1973. He was killed in 1978 by Mujahedeen rebel groups. In a year, the Soviet Union invaded and introduced communism to this country.
The Continental Congress met in York, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 to establish a confederation. The results of this meeting are contained in Article V of the Articles of Confederation- our first national constitution (Jones pg 1) Jones (1982) states that Article V stated that for the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each state shall direct…No state shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven Members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years…(p. 1) The question now would be why the Articles of Confederation failed in properly governing the country. Firstly, the Article of Confederation placed all national power in the hands of the Congress. During those times, there was no national court system, no president, and the heads of executive branch where either members of the congress or chosen by it (Gershman, 2008). Secondly, the Articles of Confederation specified that delegates, elected by state legislatures, would meet annually.